This research considers the strategies on the initial public offering of company equity at the stock exchanges in the imperfect highly volatile global capital markets with the nonlinearities. We provide the IPO definition and compare the initial listing requirements on the various markets. We...

As of April 23, 2001, the limit order book for stocks listed on Euronext Paris became anonymous. We study the effect of this switch to anonymity on market liquidity and the informational content of the limit order book. Our empirical analysis is based on a model of limit order trading in which...

We develop a model of limit order trading in which some traders have better information on future price volatility. As limit orders have option-like features, this information is valuable for limit order traders. We solve for informed and uninformed limit order traders' bidding strategies in...

This study examines the stock price reaction to the information content of bonus issue with the view of the Srilankan Stock Exchange is semi-strong efficient or not. The period of the study is January 2003 to April 2007. Sample of 67 bonus issues made by both financial and non-financial sector...

In this paper, we use stock price data between the years 2007 and 2010 to investigate the allocation of assets on the GSE. The Classical Markowitz optimization method shows that, the most profitable portfolio is obtained by investing 90% of wealth in non-financial assets and 10% in financial...

This paper describes the changes in ownership and internationalization of the brokerage firms in Colombia as a result of the regional integration process of its stock exchange market through the Latin American Integrated Market (MILA). It proposes that the integration of stock exchanges...

In this paper, we examine the behavior of the intra-daily stock returns and close-end stock price manipulation in the Istanbul Stock Exchange (ISE). Understanding the price behavior in a given trading day could help investors when they are making their buy and sell decisions. Studies of...

his paper examines the monthly interrelation of option volume and price return for actively traded Frankfurt Stock Exchange stocks and their European Derivatives Exchange traded options during the trading period of May to August 2002. The purpose is to investigate whether microfinance...

Using the adoption of the Arrowhead trading platform in January 2010 as an exogenous event, we investigate the effects of algorithmic trading on stock market liquidity and commonality in liquidity under different market conditions on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. After controlling for endogeneity,...